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Trachyntis epipona^ n. sp. 



Male, 13 mm. Head grey-whitish. Palpi whitish, lower 

 half of second joint dark fuscous. Antennae grey. Thorax 

 grey-whitish, mixed anteriorly with fuscous. Abdomen grey. 

 Legs dark fuscous, ringed with whitish, hairs of posterior tibiae 

 whitish. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa gently 

 arched, apex rounded, termen very obliquely rounded ; grey- 

 whitish, irregularly sprinkled with fuscous and a few, black 

 scales; four direct irregular dark brown fasciae, first subbasal^ 

 second before middle, including cloudy blackish plical and first 

 discal stigmata, third at two-thirds, including cloudy black 

 second discal stigma, fourth subapical, suffusedly confluent 

 with third in middle ; cilia whitish, mixed with fuscous and 

 dark fuscous. Hindwings grey, darker terminally ; cilia light 

 grey. 



Sydney, New South Wales, in April ; one specimen. Allied 

 to T . delophanes, but narrower-winged, without the white 

 discal streak, and otherwise quite distinct. 



PHLGEOPOLA, Meyr. 



Phlceopola epethistis, n. sp. 



Male and female, 20-24 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, mixed 

 with fuscous. Palpi ochreous-whitish, basal half and a sub- 

 apical ring of second joint, and a broad band above base of 

 terminal joint dark fuscous. Antennae pale ochreous, obscurely 

 spotted with dark fuscous. Thorax rather dark fuscous, 

 sprinkled or mixed with ochreous-whitish. Abdomen 

 brownish-ochreous, segmental margins ochreous-whitish. Legs 

 dark fuscous, ringed with ochreous-whitish, hairs of posterior 

 tibiae ochreous-whitish. Forewings elongate, moderate, cost-a 

 moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen little rounded, 

 oblique ; pale whitisli-ochreous, confusedly mixed and irrorated 

 with brownish-ochreous and dark fuscous; a bronzy-brown 

 basal patch mixed with dark fuscous ; a very undefined bronzy- 

 brown fascia from one-fourth of costa to middle of dorsum, 

 and another from middle of costa to tornus, sharply angulated 

 below middle ; stigmata cloudy, dark fuscous, plical more or 

 less elongate, obliquely before first discal ; a curved subter- 

 minal series of coudy dark fuscous dots, starting from an in- 

 wardly oblique dark fuscous spot on costa towards apex ; cilia 

 pale whitish-ochreous mixed with fuscous and dark fuscous. 

 Hindwings ochreous-grey-whitish, somewhat fuscous-sprinkled ; 

 cilia fuscous-whitish mixed with fuscous. 



Deloraine, Tasmania, in December ; three specimens. 



